Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-30
The Clara Louise Kellogg Concert and
Opera Friday Evening Next.

The Clara Louise Kellogg Concert and
Opera Friday Evening Next.
The famous csntstrice Americas greatest
prima donna soprano, is Gas a well known
correspondent describes her) remarkable
lady. She is not only the most gifted as a
musician, she is what is equally essential to
such an effort, an admirable business woman.
Those who delight in the imprisoned Italian
style and move through maze of soft meo.
dies as in dream, may not value as they
ought Clara Louise Kellogg's genius She
has the look and air of an American lady,
and has that delicate beauty which belongs
to them Her voice is high and pure, but
how delicate, how agile, how finely in tune;
the wonders she accomplishes IN srpeggios
and forture, commencing in the highest
notes of the treble scale without the least
effort, and the facility with which she invents
these passages and the grace of their applica-
ton, cannot but commsnd their appreciation.
People may have heard perhaps more melo-
dous passages from Grisi, and many of
brilliant execution from Sontag, but nothing
so wonderfully delicate as her management of
high notes, which become softer and more
pleasing the more she loses herself and the
higher they go Her change from restfnl power
to rapid run seem to entwine themselves
as it were about single thread of move
ment, and she links them all together by
common point of attachment tor the most
pleasing melodious transitions. She can
pass from stimulating boldness to n play
ful llghtness or Overlooking smoothness,
as dancing girl moves now in wild bound,
now in soft gliding, illustrating in wdll di.
rected irregularity all possible variations
The ease with which she uses this device is a
doll fft a.
and there. nov lost in the mass OF tone. now
reappesring at some unexpected level, half
transformed by its altered depth and new
timbre. Yet there is about all this apparent
ly careless wandering of voice, a regularity
half obscure. which forms a basis of security
for her picturesque variation. Her cadences
are most carefully planned and exQuisitely
executed. and her smooth progress from note
to note in some of her Ostentatious warblings,
ever careful of her resting place and return
ing to the subject of her airs, is the perfec-
ton OF vocal art. In Italian opera Miss KEEL
logg 10 deemed to be greater than any other
singer who has been heard in Augusta. The
English, not naturally a meloeious tongue, is
softened BY her charming execution, while
the Italian, overlooking with melody, derives
more power from majestic partitions of ideal
lied vebemence than from the smooth vocal
genius of Kellogg, which MARBLES most de-
liciously in temperate musical zones where
the emotions are pleasantly affected without
being shaken by the strains of passionate
song. She has also the advantage over the
more snowy European singers as her merit
is decidedly that OF brilliant executive. and
colorsd as this Is by an extremely pleasing
parsonage. and graceful mien and vivacity.
the combination have great fascination.
Such is the lady artist who seeks the patron
age of this cultured community on Friday
evening next.
As Ill be seen by the advertisement the
sale of reserved seats will commence on
Thursday morning at Hunts music store.